Cyrus Mountry, a former Chairman of Tata Sons who was killed in an accident on Jalan Early this week, was cremated in the Finance Capital on Tuesday.
The funeral in Central Mumbai’s World Crematorium was attended by a very close PARSI community member, several business leaders and politicians.
The stepmother industry Doyen Ratan Tata Simone Tata was also present.Simone Tata is bound by a wheelchair, 92, arriving at the crematorium with a special van.The former Ramadorai Head of TCS also came for cremation.
However, there are no other senior officials from the Group – with whom Mistry is a bitter fight until the end of the funeral.
Madhu Kannan, one of the key executives chosen by Mistry during Tata Sons’s leadership, was seen in the funeral.
Cyrus Mistry Shapoor Mistry’s older sister, Senior Father and Senior Lawyer Iqbal Chagla, Industrialist Anil Ambani, Ajit Gulabchand, Deepak Parekh and Vishal Kampani, businessman Ronnie Suppule, Hafeez Contractor, NCP Contragers, Nakp Supriya Suprprereneur Suprepreneur.
The remnants of mortal mortar, decorated with white flowers, brought from JJ hospitals managed by the government to the crematorium in the morning and are stored for friends and family to prayThe last rite is carried out in an electrical crematorium right before noon.
A family priest performs ritual prayers such as the PARSI tradition before the last ritual is held at a predetermined time, according to those who attend the funeral.
Pandal was specifically established for the last rite in the crematorium, starting by several progressive people in the Parsi community in 2015 as an alternative to old practice leaving the body in the tower of silence.
Friends and family members began to drip from the morning to give their prayers in the Pandal where the light music was played.
Only relatives and closest friends who were present in the room where the machine was stored and the media waited outside the crematorium gate.
Mistry, 54, who heads the Salt-to-Software Conglomerate Tata Sons from 2012-16 before an unofficial exit, and his friend Jahangir Pandole was killed in an accident on the road in the Palghar District, Maharashtra on Sunday afternoon.
He returned from a visit to Udvada in Gujarat Selatan, which is the most sacred place for people who followed Zoroastrian’s faith.
On Sunday, the Mercedes SUV where Cyrus Mountry and Pandole traveled crashed into a divider on a bridge above the Surya River in the Palghar District.
The famous gynecologist Anahita Pandole (55), who drives a sports utility vehicle, and her husband Darius Pandole (60) was injured in the accident and was treated at a local hospital in Mumbai.
The Mistry family has released advertisements in the morning newspaper who announced his death and cremation time, with a request not to offer condolences.